By the end of Year Three (October 2020), the project established a resident-led Community Development Trust to continue this work into the future and to ensure that the initiatives that have emerged over the past three years are sustainable.
Establishing a CDT will provide a more viable, long-term framework for community participation and support for community enterprise. The project will help our partners broker their investment and intentions with the whole community; help residents to access new training and job opportunities; identify and support community enterprises; generate additional income for a sustainable future, and help provide a strong community voice in relation to the development programme. This represents an ambitious vision for the project, but one we think is achievable. It is an idea that residents welcome and it will enable the school, having launched and nurtured the project, to become a partner in a broad-based community organisation, which is a more sustainable way forward.